Posted
20 days
ago
by
Marshalrusty
Registration for Londonvasion 2008 is now open! Please read this post in its entirety before proceeding with registration.
What is Londonvasion 2008?
Londonvasion 2008 is the first ever live phpBB conference. We are very excited to
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present you with this unique opportunity to meet fellow community members, as well as the phpBB team.
The conference will be held on Sunday July 20th in a hotel across the street from London Heathrow Airport (UK). Doors will open at 9:00 AM and the event is scheduled to end at around 17:00 (5 PM).
We welcome speakers and presentations on any phpBB related topic; please contact me if you are interested. A full list of planned discussions will be made available prior to the event. Please continue to ask any questions in the following topic: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=859905. You may also contact me in private for confidential concerns.
Where is the event being held?
The conference will be held at the Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel which is located directly across from London Heathrow Airport (LHR). There are around a dozen other hotels in the area, so you should have no problem finding a room if necessary.
If you plan on using the London Underground for transportation, the closest station also happens to be at LHR. Travel from the airport and Underground station to the hotel is available via a £4 shuttle bus which runs every 15 minutes. The shuttle also stops at the other hotels located on Bath Rd and can therefore be used to travel between hotels ? make sure to confirm this when booking. Alternatively, taxi fare from the airport is around £7.
Community members who reside in London may be able to provide travel tips, so please feel free to ask in the discussion topic.
Advertising
Several methods of live advertising are available. If you are interested, please contact me for more information via any of the methods listed in my profile.
What should I bring?
Wifi will be available, so you are welcome to bring any portable internet capable device. Cameras (photo, video) will be allowed.
If you bring your Bertie, make sure that he is marked in some recognisable way and differs from all the others.
Parking
On site parking is available for a fee of £10 per day. This price may differ slightly depending on the amount of space.
Food and beverage
The hotel will be setting up a cafeteria with very reasonably priced options in the 3rd floor atrium. Items will include sandwiches of various fillings, tea, coffee, pastries, desserts and other snacks.
[*] Please note this important change from the previous announcement and update on your own sites as necessary.
Updates
Important updates will be posted as replies to this topic and also emailed to all confirmed attendees. You may also wish to see the discussion topic for answers to specific questions.
How do I register?
Please read this post in its entirety before proceeding with registration.
There will be a registration fee of £10 per person for the event. This is an unavoidable measure to prevent bogus bookings and the reselling of tickets, which is strictly prohibited. To further prevent "ticket scalping", each paid registration will have an id, name and email associated with it. All proceeds will be used to offset the cost of the event.
You can register for the event by filling out the following form: http://www.phpbb.com/londonvasion/. Upon submitting the form, you will be redirected to Paypal where you can pay the registration fee. You will receive a confirmation PM when your registration has been processed and confirmed. At this time, you will also see a confirmation page in place of the form. If you do not receive a confirmation PM, then your registration has not been confirmed. The system will only accept one registration per username, and the username will be linked to the ticket.
As there are a limited number of seats, so we strongly recommend registering early if you plan on attending.
Please do not hesitate to contact me in private if you:
1) are unable to use Paypal.
2) need to register multiple tickets or a ticket for someone else.
3) do not receive a confirmation PM after payment.
4) experience any other problems.
Thanks, and we hope to see you in London,
- The phpBB Team [Less]
Posted
20 days
ago
by
Marshalrusty
Registration for Londonvasion 2008 is now open! Please read this post in its entirety before proceeding with registration.
What is Londonvasion 2008?
Londonvasion 2008 is the first ever live phpBB conference. We are very excited to
... [More]
present you with this unique opportunity to meet fellow community members, as well as the phpBB team.
The conference will be held on Sunday July 20th in a hotel across the street from London Heathrow Airport (UK). Doors will open at 9:00 AM and the event is scheduled to end at around 17:00 (5 PM).
We welcome speakers and presentations on any phpBB related topic; please contact me if you are interested. A full list of planned discussions will be made available prior to the event. Please continue to ask any questions in the following topic: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=859905. You may also contact me in private for confidential concerns.
Where is the event being held?
The conference will be held at the Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel which is located directly across from London Heathrow Airport (LHR). There are around a dozen other hotels in the area, so you should have no problem finding a room if necessary.
If you plan on using the London Underground for transportation, the closest station also happens to be at LHR. Travel from the airport and Underground station to the hotel is available via a £4 shuttle bus which runs every 15 minutes. The shuttle also stops at the other hotels located on Bath Rd and can therefore be used to travel between hotels ? make sure to confirm this when booking. Alternatively, taxi fare from the airport is around £7.
Community members who reside in London may be able to provide travel tips, so please feel free to ask in the discussion topic.
Advertising
Several methods of live advertising are available. If you are interested, please contact me for more information via any of the methods listed in my profile.
What should I bring?
Wifi will be available, so you are welcome to bring any portable internet capable device. Cameras (photo, video) will be allowed.
If you bring your Bertie, make sure that he is marked in some recognisable way and differs from all the others.
Parking
On site parking is available for a fee of £10 per day. This price may differ slightly depending on the amount of space.
Food and beverage
The hotel will be setting up a cafeteria with very reasonably priced options in the 3rd floor atrium. Items will include sandwiches of various fillings, tea, coffee, pastries, desserts and other snacks.
Please note this important change from the previous announcement and update on your own sites as necessary.
Updates
Important updates will be posted as replies to this topic and also emailed to all confirmed attendees. You may also wish to see the discussion topic for answers to specific questions.
How do I register?
Please read this post in its entirety before proceeding with registration.
There will be a registration fee of £10 per person for the event. This is an unavoidable measure to prevent bogus bookings and the reselling of tickets, which is strictly prohibited. To further prevent "ticket scalping", each paid registration will have an id, name and email associated with it. All proceeds will be used to offset the cost of the event.
You can register for the event by filling out the following form: http://www.phpbb.com/londonvasion/. Upon submitting the form, you will be redirected to Paypal where you can pay the registration fee. You will receive a confirmation PM when your registration has been processed and confirmed. At this time, you will also see a confirmation page in place of the form. If you do not receive a confirmation PM, then your registration has not been confirmed. The system will only accept one registration per username, and the username will be linked to the ticket.
As there are a limited number of seats, so we strongly recommend registering early if you plan on attending.
Please do not hesitate to contact me in private if you:
1) are unable to use Paypal.
2) need to register multiple tickets or a ticket for someone else.
3) do not receive a confirmation PM after payment.
4) experience any other problems.
Thanks, and we hope to see you in London,
- The phpBB Team [Less]
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
NeoThermic
Hello,
Today we are announcing our retirement plans for phpBB 2.0.x. This is advanced notification so that everyone can stay informed.
Commencing Wednesday 1st October 2008, phpBB 2.0.x download links will be removed from the
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download page at phpBB.com. Anyone wishing to obtain phpBB 2.0.x can continue to obtain the 2.0.x package at sourceforge.net.
Commencing Thursday 1st January 2009, phpBB 2.0.x will be formally retired, and support will no longer be actively provided for 2.0.x. Converting from 2.0.x to 3.0.x will continue to be supported.
Security patches, if required, will be provided until Sunday 1st February 2009.
The reason for the early retirement is the PHP Group's decision to retire PHP 4. phpBB 2.0 mainly runs on the PHP 4 codebase and it would be unwise to require people to have an unsupported version of PHP installed in order to use phpBB.
Teams will announce how they will handle the retirement in the coming days. [Less]
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
Acyd Burn
Hello,
We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB 3.0.1 package. This version has seen numerous stability fixes, performance tweaks and general bugs fixed. Additionally two minor security-related bugs were
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fixs.
Please note that we urge you to update. The versions we currently support here are phpBB 2.0.23 and phpBB 3.0.1.
3.0.1 has seen some some critical bugs fixed, including:
[Fix] Allow correct avatar caching for CGI installations. (thanks wildbill)[Fix] Fix disabling of word censor, now possible again[Fix] Correctly quote db password for re-display in installer (Bug #16695 / thanks to m313 for reporting too - #s17235)[Fix] Correctly handle empty imageset entries (Bug #16865)[Fix] Correctly check empty subjects/messages (Bug #17915)[Change] Do not check usernames against word censor list. Disallowed usernames is already checked and word censor belong to posts. (Bug #17745)[Change] Sped up viewforum considerably (also goes towards mcp_forum)[Fix] Allow editing usernames within database_update on username cleanup (Bug #18415)[Fix] Use proper title on index for new/unread posts (Bug #13101) - patch provided by Pyramide[Fix] Allow calls to $user->set_cookie() define no cookie time for setting session cookies (Bug #18025)[Fix] Stricter checks on smilie packs (Bug #19675)[Fix] Possible login problems with IE7 if browser check is activated (Bug #20135)[Fix] Fix possible database transaction errors if code returns on error and rollback happened (Bug #17025)[Change] Allow numbers in permission names for modifications, as well as uppercase letters for the request_ part (Bug #20125)[Fix] Use HTTP_HOST in favor of SERVER_NAME for determining server url for redirection and installation (Bug #19955)[Fix] Changing order for post review if more than one post affected (Bug #15249)[Fix] Prepend phpbb_root_path to ranks path for displaying ranks (Bug #19075)[Fix] Allow forum notifications if topic notifications are disabled but forum notifications enabled (Bug #14765)[Fix] Fixing realpath issues for provider returning the passed value instead of disabling it. This fixes issues with confirm boxes for those hosted on Network Solutions for example. (Bug #20435)[Fix] Try to sort last active date on memberlist correctly at least on current page (Bug #18665)[Fix] Handle generation of form tokens when maximum time is set to -1[Fix] Correctly delete unapproved posts without deleting the topic (Bug #15120)[Fix] Respect signature permissions in posting (Bug #16029)[Fix] Users allowed to resign only from open and freely open groups (Bug #19355)[Fix] Assign a last viewed date to converted topics (Bug #16565)[Feature] New option to hide the entire list of subforums on listforums[Fix] Custom BBCode {EMAIL}-Token usage (Bug #21155)[Fix] Do not rely on parameter returned by unlink() for verifying cache directory write permission (Bug #19565)[Change] Use correct string for filesize (MiB instead of MB for example)[Change] Remove left join for query used to retrieve already assigned users and groups within permission panel (Bug #20235)[Fix] Correctly return sole whitespaces if used with BBCodes (Bug #19535)[Fix] Quote bbcode parsing adding too much closing tags on special conditions (Bug #20735)[Change] Added sanity checks to various ACP settings[Change] Removed minimum form times[Fix] Custom profile fields with date type should be timezone independend (Bug #15003)[Fix] Warnings if poll title/options exceed maximum characters per post (Bug #22865)[Fix] Do not allow selecting non-authorized groups within memberlist by adjusting URL (Bug #22805 - patch provided by ToonArmy)[Fix] Display "empty password error" within the login box instead of issuing a general error (Bug #22525)[Fix] Allow & and | in local part of email addresses (Bug #22995)[Fix] Do not error out if php_uname function disabled / Authenticating on SMTP Server (Bug #22235 - patch by HoL)[Fix] Correctly obtain to be ignored users within topic/forum notification (Bug #21795 - patch provided by dr.death)[Fix] Correctly update board statistics for attaching orphaned files to existing posts (Bug #20185)[Fix] Do not detect the board URL as a link twice in posts (Bug #19215)[Fix] Set correct error reporting in style.php to avoid blank pages after CSS changes (Bug #23885)[Fix] If pruning users based on last activity, do not include users never logged in before (Bug #18105)[Sec] Only allow searching by email address in memberlist for users having the a_user permission (reported by evil[Sec] Limit private message attachments to be viewable only by the recipient(s)/sender (Report #s23535) - reported by AlleyKat[Sec] Check for non-empty config.php within style.php (Report #s24575) - reported by bantu[Fix] Find and display colliding usernames correctly when converting from one database to another (Bug #23925)
Please refer to the changelog for a complete list of fixes since 3.0.0:
http://www.phpbb.com/support/documents. ... &version=3
A short explanation of how to do a conversion, installation or update is included within the provided INSTALL.html file, please be sure to read it.
Minimum Requirements
phpBB3 has a few requirements which must be met before you are able to install and use it.
A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System with support for PHPA SQL database system, one of:
MySQL 3.23 or above (MySQLi supported)PostgreSQL 7.3 SQLite 2.8.2 Firebird 2.0 MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)OraclePHP 4.3.3 (>=4.3.3, >4.4.x, >5.x.x, >6.0-dev (compatible)) with support for the database you intend to use.getimagesize() function need to be enabledThese optional presence of the following modules within PHP will provide access to additional features, but they are not required.
zlib Compression supportRemote FTP supportXML supportImagemagick supportGD Support
The presence of each of these optional modules will be checked during the installation process.
Security
Security issues found should be reported to our security tracker in the usual way.
Available packages
If you experience problems with the automatic update (white screens, timeouts, etc.) we recommend using the "changed files only" or "patch" method for updating.
With this release, there are four packages available.
Full Package
Contains entire phpBB3 source and english language files.Changed Files Only
Contains only those files changed from previous versions of phpBB3. Please note this archive contains changed files for each previous release.Patch Files
Contains patch compatible patches from previous versions of phpBB3.Automatic Update Package
Update package for the automatic updater, containing the changes from previous release to this release.Select whichever package is most suitable for you.
Please ensure you read the INSTALL and README documents in docs/ before proceeding with installation, updates or conversions!.
Download/Documentation
phpBB DownloadsphpBB3 DocumentationphpBB3 support forumphpBB3 bug trackerphpBB3 Coding GuidelinesphpBB3 Sourcecode DocumentationphpBB Code Forge
Have fun with the release,
the phpBB Team [Less]
Posted
about 1 month
ago
by
Marshalrusty
Please see the updated topic here: viewtopic.php?f=39&t=925555
